thegreatdivine

2y

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Her Loss did 513M US streams off 16 songs and that dropped 2 years ago, Drake's SECOND album that year and was Drake's THIRD album in 14 months.

jynth

2y

…is that not top guy behavior?

jynth

2y

…is that not top guy behavior?

thegreatdivine

2y

Her Loss did 513M US streams off 16 songs and that dropped 2 years ago, Drake's SECOND album that year and was Drake's THIRD album in 14 months.

TheFader

2y

They keep posting the Her Loss numbers as some gotcha like we all don’t already acknowledge that album did amazing commercially

thegreatdivine

2y

Did I say it wasn't?

thegreatdivine

2y

Her Loss did 513M US streams off 16 songs and that dropped 2 years ago, Drake's SECOND album that year and was Drake's THIRD album in 14 months.

Freight

2y

It’s a thread based on predictions. We’re all wrong and take our Ls sometimes 🤝

TheFader

2y

I’ll take the L. 319K still pretty damn close though, and it’s exactly what I originally predicted the album to do

STEPPA PIG

2y

21 Savage stimulus

Sonic Winter

2y

all i know is hdd first projections this year are usually way less than the actual which held true this time as well

jynth

2y

baby keem stimulus better

family ties biggest rap song of the decade. the ppl want that collab

jynth

2y

they expect all of us to be constantly arguing in bad faith

CRACKASTEPPAVEGAN

2y

Imma be real, what you're describing about UMG sounds like standard industry practice that's been around, and one that Drake himself benefited from (see the infamous Scorpion rollout on Spotify, when Drake was white-hot after the Pusha T beef), along with every major artist (Sabrina Carpenter), has benefited from at one point in their career.

I don't see the conspiracy with NLU. What happened with that song just sounds like what happened with Barbenheimer: it captured the zeitgeist in that moment. I was outside. S*** was everywhere frfr. Do I think that UMG might have given it a boost, whether Dot knew about it or not? Yeah I believe so. Do I think that UMG and Spotify colluded with each other to push the song just to mess with drake? No, that's ridiculous. But I am interested in seeing what kind of evidence that Drake's team has.

We can only speculate, but if Drake has been undergoing some contract negotiations during this beef or long before, then I can understand why he feels a way because that would mess with his money, but I don't see how Umg is responsible for how the beef turned out That's why I think the defamation petition holds no water because Family Matters is essentially a Whitney smear campaign. It's rap beef, there are no rules, and he took it there, so it is what it is, but there is no complaining after that. He made his bed. We can't divorce the rap beef from the 2 petitions. I'll give Drake the benefit of the doubt and say that maybe he's had grievances with UMG for a while now. I'll even speculate further and say the 100Gig stunt was him lashing out at them lowkey. But the timing of the petitions make him look wild in the light, regardless if he has legit grievances, and the defamation petition doesn't help.

Also, just to point out at the example you gave, Not Like Us is a diss track with some foul, personal s*** being said on wax, while Die With a Smile is a beautiful ballad. The content is overlooked but I think it plays a major role imo. It doesn't really surprise me at which songs get more legs in the long run, I'm jussayin Someone hearing NLU with zero context of the beef might get put off by the content without the context. You don't need context to get into I Had Some Help, or A Bar Song, and the Die With a Smile Song.

STEPPA PIG

2y

Nobody denies Drake's commercial success, how can we? Bro undeniably does crazy numbers everytime he drops something (as long as it's not dance music)

But it's like Drake stans take any other artist selling well as a challenge to him. You brought up GNX's streams, TGD feels the need to respond saying that a Drake project 2 years ago streamed more and it was his second album of that year. Fader posts GNX's streams on page 3309, she suddenly posts that Drake had the most sales of any rapper for the past 10 years two posts below that

Like how can you be so insecure/defensive over an artist whose music you like. And not even the music itself, the number of other people listening to it

TheFader

2y

Drake’s next album is not clearing 400 million streams first week unless it’s 20+ tracks.

SWAN

2y

well it is clearing it then, cause it will definitely have 20+ tracks

SWAN

2y

well it is clearing it then, cause it will definitely have 20+ tracks